DALIAN · FROM ¥700 / NIGHT TWIN
Conrad Dalian
The skyline base for Dalian’s golf — Red Flag Valley’s hundred-metre drops one direction, Jinshitan’s world-ranked coastal holes the other.
DALIAN · FROM ¥700 / NIGHT TWIN
The skyline base for Dalian’s golf — Red Flag Valley’s hundred-metre drops one direction, Jinshitan’s world-ranked coastal holes the other.
WHY THIS HOTEL
The skyline base for Dalian’s golf — Red Flag Valley’s hundred-metre drops one direction, Jinshitan’s world-ranked coastal holes the other.
Dalian has the most underrated golf geography in China: a mountain complex (Hongqigu, ranked No.54) with the biggest elevation change in the country, and a coastal complex (Jinshitan) whose fairways have been listed among the world’s hundred best — all within an hour of a clean, seaside city with Korean and Japanese flight connections.
The Conrad anchors the downtown end: modern rooms over the bay, a serious breakfast, and honest transfer times to both golf clusters. The InterContinental and the Hilton cover the other price points on the same map.
We run Dalian as a three-night rotation — Red Flag Valley, Jinshitan, Xiali or Changxing Island — with the city’s seafood evenings in between. May to October is the window; Xiali stays open all year if the trip drifts into winter.
THE GOLF AT THE DOOR
Dalian golf splits in two: the coast at Jinshitan, and the mountain courses west of the city. Conrad sits between them on the Donggang waterfront, which makes it the right base for a group playing all three.
The reason to fly to Dalian: 3,000 mu of coast at Jinshitan, seven holes ranked among the world’s best, and the par-3 seventh — 132 yards to an island green in open sea — that every golfer here photographs before playing.
The second eighteen, opened in 2002: shorter, tighter, and routed through the same coastal terrain. Play it as the afternoon round when the wind has dropped.
Built on the coast west of the city and the only course in northeast China that does not close in winter. Eighteen holes with water in view on every one, and twin greens that make club selection the whole game.
Thirty minutes from downtown in the Xijiao forest park: mountain golf, bentgrass throughout, plus a nine-hole floodlit loop for the evening. The most convenient course if your group is city-based.
BEYOND THE GOLF
This is the part your non-golfers care about — and the reason the trip works as a week, not a series of tee times.
The whole hotel is above the twenty-fifth floor of the Donggang tower: harbour, coastline and city skyline from every room, and an Executive Lounge on 38 for the view without the crowd.
The ‘Xian’ Chinese restaurant and the M Bar — a compact food and beverage operation, which in practice means consistent rather than sprawling.
Indoor heated lap pool and a well-equipped gym on the podium — the pool is long enough to actually swim, which is not a given in city hotels.
The music fountain, the Venice water-town quarter and the old dock lighthouse are all a few minutes’ walk; the international conference centre is directly opposite.
A 588 sqm pillar-free ballroom and four function rooms: Conrad is Dalian’s default corporate-return venue, so group handling is well drilled.
ASKED BEFORE YOU ASK
Everything else — room categories, caddie arrangements, that back nine your handicap fears — is one message away.
4 courses are profiled above, and a four-night stay comfortably covers three rounds without a single long transfer. Your planner sequences them so the toughest round lands on your freshest morning.
Yes — that is half the reason we book it. Floors 26 to 38 is the headline, and the full day programme is planned with the same care as the tee sheet.
From about ¥700 per night twin; three-night, three-round packages from ¥3,299 per person at the partner hotels. Everything is quoted as one fixed all-in price — room, rounds, caddies, drivers and transfers — so nothing arrives as a surprise on checkout day.
STAY + GOLF, ONE PRICE
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